The word "acquires" is correct and usable in written English
It is a verb that means to gain possession of something through effort, skill, or something else. For example, "After months of studying and practice, he finally acquired the skills needed to be a successful chef."
1980: Nadir acquires a controlling interest in Polly Peck International, then an East End rag trade business, which he grows into a large, stock market-listed conglomerate headquartered in Berkeley Square, Mayfair.
Once an employer acquires an employee's genetic information, it could theoretically mine that data to learn additional information, including information about the individual that the person himself may not know.
One analyst told the inspector general that when the organization acquires Americans' data, its officials "tuck it to the side".
Instability, so clearly likely from the Brexit scenario if Ukip acquires enough MPs to give it leverage, is multiplied by the nationalist threat, and the explicit ambition by the SNP to break up Britain.
Latham pointed to Queensland, where the criminal code provides for three years' imprisonment for an offence where a public official acquires or holds a private interest in any contracted agreement with their department.
The slickly safe-seeming software that has inveigled itself so completely into modern society is largely built upon computer code written decades ago that acquired new uses and features as an old house acquires coats of paint.
As India acquires the means to shape the global economic and geopolitical landscape, its leaders will face a familiar dilemma.
Weighty scientific reports and the force of public opinion will ensure that concern over global warming and related matters, such as the search for alternatives to oil, acquires critical mass.
His son, who is lumbered with the name Gogol Ganguli, studies architecture at Yale and acquires an All-American girlfriend, rich, blonde and well-connected.Mr Ganguli is part of a huge army of immigrants who have brought their brains and enthusiasm to the United States not just Indians and Pakistanis but also Chinese, Koreans and Europeans.
Mr Pearson's Valeant simply acquires them.Allergan fits nicely within Mr Pearson's strategy.
Landholders know the project cannot proceed unless the buyer acquires all the plots he needs.
